› added 11 years ago

137

TIL that MLK’s mother was herself assassinated shortly before the evidentiary hearing for James Earl Ray, who the King family believes is innocent.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

bGN9 TIL That the word phoney comes from the name for an Irish scam called “Fawney Ring” In which someone is sold a fake golden ring
5Ydvp TIL that Karl Grossman, a German butcher and serial killer with 50 suspected victims, covered his crimes by grinding up the ‘meat’ produced by his victims, making hot dogs and selling them at his stand outside a Berlin trail station.
e06dk TIL The Simpsons 2019 "Treehouse of Horror" Will Be Episode 666
OoVQ1 TIL Ravens can recognize the faces of people who have treated them unfairly and tend to avoid those people for at least a month
9Y0j6 TIL the earliest Sanskrit text is not found in India, but in Northern Syria